UK indie to tie with the apocalyptic drama’s producer Kilter Films
Studio Lambert is to co-produce an epic scale reality competition for Prime Video based on the streamer’s post-apocalyptic drama series Fallout.
The 10-part Fallout Shelter appears to follow a similar model to Squid Game: The Challenge, Studio Lambert’s competition series based on the Korean Netflix drama of the same name.
The All3Media-backed UK indie will make Fallout Shelter with LA-based Kilter Films - the producer of the drama series. It will be produced in association with Amazon MGM Studios and Bethesda Game Studios, which makes the game franchise on which the original show is based.
Starring Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins, Fallout is set in the Vault-Tec universe in a society which has collapsed following a nuclear holocaust. The second series premiered last month and a third series has been commissioned.
The competition will see a diverse group of contestants enter the immersive world of Vault-Tec’s bomb-proof vaults to take part in challenges and strategic dilemmas, competing for safety, power and a huge cash prize. Casting for the show is now open.
The executive producers include Stephen Lambert, Tim Harcourt, Jack Burgess, Toni Ireland, Stephen Yemoh, Stephen Lovelock and Amina Badresingh for Studio Lambert with Abi Lambrinos as executive in charge of production.
Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy and Athena Wickham will produce for Kilter Films, which is also behind HBO’s hit series Westworld, with James Altman and Todd Howard for Bethesda Game Studios.
Fallout Shelter will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories.
The second series of Studio Lambert’s Squid Game: The Challenge, based on the Korean drama in which contestants participate in deadly games, held the number one spot on Netflix’s Top 10 English-language TV list for its first two weeks of release. However, it could not quite match the smash ratings of the debut run when it aired in the UK last year. The launch episode pulled in just over 500,000 British viewers in its first week, well behind the 2m who watched the first series opener in November 2023.
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